1st Shift Prep Cook

Mom's Meals•Grinnell, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Prep Cooks are responsible for preparing food and ingredients to be cooked in kettles of mixed in mixers. This role involves preparing and maintaining an efficient setup of the prep room, understanding kitchen needs, initiating and ensuring all batches are accurate and signed off, weighing prepped ingredients, opening boxed ingredients and decanting them into pans, and ensuring equipment is returned to the dish room efficiently. The position also requires understanding and operating stick blenders safely, inspecting equipment after cleaning and before use to ensure cleanliness, and adhering to strict safety, quality, and production standards, including food sanitation (GMP) guidelines.

Requirements

Be a team player, including the ability to communicate well with others
Basic reading comprehension
Basic math, weight, and measurement skills (pounds, ounces, etc.)
Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen
Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Able to perform repetitive movements
Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)

Nice To Haves

Prep cook experience

Responsibilities

Prepare and maintain efficient setup of the prep room
Understand kitchen needs for the day
Initiate and ensure all batches are accurate and signed off
Weigh prepped ingredients as needed
Open boxed ingredients and decant into pans
Ensure that equipment is returned to the dish room in an efficient manner
Understand and operate stick blenders in a safe manner
Inspect equipment after cleaning and before use to ensure that they are clean
Adhere to strict safety, quality, and production standards including food sanitation (GMP) guidelines